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The Eternal Struggle In The Law Between Constancy And Change Is Largely A Struggle Between History And Reason, Between Past Reason And Present Needs.

We Forget That The Most Successful Statesmen Have Been Professionals. Lincoln Was A Professional Politician.

It Is Hostile To A Democratic System To Involve The Judiciary In The Politics Of The People.

The Words Of The Constitution... Are So Unrestricted By Their Intrinsic Meaning Or By Their History Or By Tradition Or By Prior Decisions That They Leave The Individual Justice Free, If Indeed They Do Not Compel Him, To Gather Meaning Not From Reading The Constitution But From Reading Life.

For The Highest Exercise Of Judicial Duty Is To Subordinate One's Personal Pulls And One's Private Views To The Law Of Which We Are All Guaradians - Those Impersonal Convictions That Made A Society A Civilized Community, And Not The Victims Of Personal Rule.